All news on the topic: Dangerous dogs

WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: A 12-year-old schoolboy who was walking home was among five people attacked by two escaped dogs in Netherley, Liverpool, on Wednesday afternoon

High temperatures and air pollution has previously been linked to aggression in humans, monkeys, rats and mice. Now a study has found the phenomenon also applies to dogs

The gran from Motley, Minnesota, leapt into action when a neighbour's dog lunged towards her daughter and grandchildren. She says she didn't think twice about putting herself in harm's way

Angel-Mae Dawson, six, had been playing in the street with her brother and cousins when she was attacked by a German Shepherd which grabbed her by the legs and threw her around

Beverley raced to help her mum, 85-year-old retired cook Lucille Downer, as the vicious and crazed dogs attacked her as she sat in her own back garden in Rowley Regis, West Midlands

Darren Pritchard's two American bulldogs snuck into 85-year-old Lucille Downer's back garden in Rowley Regis, West Midlands and went for the great-grandmother's neck causing fatal injuries

Lightweight Rishi Sunak should call a general election immediately - rather than cowardly try to cling on by contesting three by-elections triggered by Boris Johnson's exit

Four in five voters believe ministers should introduce tougher penalties for owners whose dogs are dangerously out of control amid calls for tighter curbs

WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE A woman was viciously attacked and brutally mauled in a park in Lambeth, London, by two dogs are the owner desperately tried to get control of his dogs but fled before police arrived

The 'XXL' American Bully dog is more likely to lash out and attack humans, experts have warned, because their exaggerated features leave them in distress and pain

Dog behaviourist expert Stan Rawlinson has called for a ban on breeders creating American Bully XL "monster" dogs he says are capable of killing a person in just a minute

WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE The woman was rushed to hospital for a "significant injury" to her arm after coming under a sustained attack from the three dogs, which appear to be of a Bully-type breed

Experts warned parents all dogs can bite, as they predict a spike in attacks in the summer holidays amid Mirror campaign for law-change

Wayne David made the plea as MPs were shown a heartbreaking speech by Emma Whitfield, whose 10-year-old son Jack Lis was mauled to death by American XL Bully

In her video message, Emma calls on MPs to take urgent action to tackle scourge of attacks by dangerous dogs

Emma Whitfield's son Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an XL Bully in November 2021, and since then 16 more people have died in dog attacks, including a woman in her 70s

A mum was attacked by a big dog at Silverwood Nature Reserve in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in front of her young child before fleeing as police launch hunt for owner

Emergency services descended at the scene in Monsall, Manchester, this afternoon, where it is believed a woman was arrested and the dog was seized by police officers

The victim, who was in her 70s, was declared dead at the scene in Bedworth, Warwickshire, on Friday afternoon - police arrested

Suraya Highton-Lawal callously walked away as the victim shouted to call an ambulance after the dog mauled her

Vince King and his then partner Karen Alcock took 19 huskies to a wooded area in Lincolnshire to race them when one of the dogs escaped and brutally mauled his three-month-old daughter to death

Police are searching for the owner of a German Shepherd after a horror attack by an 'aggressive' dog left two adults and a seven-year-old boy with bite injuries

The Labour leader’s backing of our campaign to prevent more people being killed or injured by out-of-control animals offers hope

Labour leader supports campaign on dangerous dogs and vowed to look at how the Dangerous Dogs Act can be toughened if he gets into No10

Mike and Shirley Anderson’s daughter, Jade Lomas-Anderson, was mauled to death by two bull mastiffs and two bull terriers at a friend’s house in 2013